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A summit to inspire next-generation leaders drew a crowd of 1,500 to Hofstra University last week.
The event, “We are the Future,” was organized by Minority Millennials, a nonprofit civic and youth development organization, in partnership with City & State and Equinor.
It featured breakout sessions and a diverse group of keynote speakers, with opening remarks from Maxwell Frost, the first member of Gen Z in Congress. The lineup also included Lieutenant Governor of New York Antonio Delgado; Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone; and financial literacy experts Troy Millings and Rashad Bilal of the Earn Your Leisure Podcast.
The summit aimed to “educate and empower Black and Brown youth from across the five boroughs and Long Island,” according to a news release about the event. AT&T, a supporter of the event, provided 1,000 free tickets to high school students from Long Island as well as Brooklyn and the Bronx.
“AT&T is proud to support such an important and meaningful summit and applauds the organizers and all of the esteemed presenters for their commitment to engage in meaningful conversation about the importance of civic responsibility,” Magdalonie Paris-Campbell, AT&T’s director of external affairs, said in a statement. “As a company that connects people across all aspects of life, we are thrilled to support this effort to engage so many New York City and Long Island youth with the opportunity to inspire them to be the next generation of changemakers and civic leaders.”
Equinor’s Empire Wind and Beacon Wind offshore wind projects committed to sponsoring up to 1,000 high school students and their transportation from Nassau County public high schools.
“As the offshore wind industry grows in New York and on Long Island, Equinor is proud to engage with the local community to bring them into the industry and to educate young people about the exciting renewable energy careers that our industry has to offer,” Molly Morris, president of Equinor Wind US, said in a statement. “It is not enough to just repower New York with offshore wind energy, we must also create a local workforce and supply chain that looks like and represents the great communities on Long Island and within the Empire State.”
“We created Minority Millennials and now the ‘We Are The Future Summit’ to bridge the gap between policy culture,” Dan Lloyd, founder and president of Minority Millennials, said in statement.
“We firmly believe the fundamental piece to economic freedom is ensuring young people of color are educated about the value of civic engagement,” he added. “Once a person understands their role in society and how powerful their voice is within a larger democracy, their leverage of power shifts and their ability to develop both personally and professionally dramatically increases.”
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